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Entwurf • Design Schleicher.Ragaller, Stuttgart
Bauherr • Client Robert Bosch GmbH, Gerlingen
Standort • Location Robert-Bosch-Platz 1 + 2, Gerlingen
Nutzfläche • Floor space ca. 1.500 m 2
Fotos • Photos Zooey Braun, Stuttgart
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More infos on page 174

STAFF RESTAURANT

IN GERLINGEN

Exactly 55 years ago, Bosch made the decision to leave
the cramped confines of Stuttgart's city centre and
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move its corporate headquarters to a greenfield site.
At that time, a new campus was built on the Schiller-
höhe near Gerlingen. Stuttgart-based architectural
firm Schleicher-Ragaller now had the task of redesig-
ning the staff restaurant dating from the late 1960s.

S ince the mid-1960s, the corporate headquarters of Robert Bosch
GmbH have been located on the Schillerhöhe, a green range of
hills on the outskirts of Gerlingen, just ten kilometres outside of
Stuttgart. Here, the industrial giant is literally hiding in a forest. The
heterogeneous development, the core of which dates from the 1960s
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and 1970s, is loosely grouped around a central, green campus, the
north side of which is occupied by the broad, one-storey building of
the staff restaurant. The building dates from 1968 and is obviously in-
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spired by prestigious hall buildings of the International Style, such as
Mies van der Rohe's Crown Hall in Chicago or his National Gallery in
Berlin. With its storey-high glass façades, the open interior connects
on all sides with the surrounding forest and green areas. An intended
increase in capacity to 1,300 meals per day, new fire protection regu-
lations, and structural adaptations with regard to accessibility re-
cently made it necessary to redesign the staff restaurant – "while pre-
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serving its external appearance". The Stuttgart-based office of archi-
tects Domenik Schleicher and Michael Ragaller was commissioned
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with this project. After gutting the building, a new, very dark terrazzo
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screed was laid and the entire ceiling was painted black. With simple
means it was thus possible to intensify the building's existing con-
nection to the exterior and ultimately to turn the view of the green
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surroundings into the dominant design element. The new installati-
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ons are also subordinate to this: painted white, gently rounded, and
precisely executed, there is nothing pretentious or fashionable about
them. They are quiet, timeless servants in the best sense of the word
and thus also bear witness to the self-image of the world market lea-
der from Swabia. Depending on the situation, they accommodate a
wide variety of functions – from the coat rack, to the food counter, the
front cooking area, and the new, centrally located scullery with tray
return. Light, wall clocks, menu displays, and payment machines are
elegantly integrated into the wall surfaces. The valuable interior fi-
Grundriss • Floor plan tout is completed by solid furniture.

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